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The New Lawyer

Jun. 18, 2013

Ex-professors' lawsuit raises questions about Phoenix School of Law growth, policies

Two tenured professors claim in a federal lawsuit that Phoenix School of Law effectively forced them out when they protested allegedly dubious moves to thwart students from transferring to competing law schools.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


During the last academic year, 77 students transferred from Phoenix School of Law to other law schools. That was the equivalent of about 15 percent of new students that year and nearly 2½ times the number who had transferred out the year before.


It appeared the school had a problem. How it allegedly responded to that problem has now prompted a federal lawsuit by a pair of former professors who...

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